Bam Dev Sharma - WHAT ARE POEMS?

WHAT ARE POEMS?

Poems are cluster
Of gnats
In the night
Soaring up
In glimmering light.

Inkling words
Get corroded on the sheet
Like twinkling stars
Till torrent of the wind
And staning clouds fiddle
In commotion.
Poems create tantrum
Mesmerizing
Hearts and minds
Sighing for rescue
From the crouched cell of Human destiny
Or celestial concentration camp
Basking the light
Of human pains and agonies
Trickling
In mystical metaphors
Merged in playful cadence.
A few of them
Crumple
In jaunty words
Jotted on the numb sheet
Lying
As if they were
Murdered mercenaries
In terrifying lands!
But they speak words
Piercing
From the earth towards the sky
In perplexity
To awaken swollen hearts.
Poems strive to exist
As Phoenician puzzles
Across luscious lands
But never wish to die
Until they hover
To become butterflies!
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Bam Dev Sharma
8/21/ 2016
Nepal